After watching the video advert i was still skeptical. But when i finally downloaded the plans ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxZF0EMnrujZvqHhGkxiz559uIABJWR9TG i was very impressed. The whole plan was just as you said in the video. Thank you very much. I now have a large and valuable collection for my woodworks. This is great!
A World Wide Wrestling Event. A slim guy against a four ton log. Enjoyed your videos for several years now. Very pleased to see you have all of your fingers and limbs. Keep them.
Love the ingenuity of the slab flipper. You should market them and call 'em "Twirl a Slab 5000"- so cool and so easy for you customers (wives) to easily compare which side is best. Love it, your channel, and passion!
My father in law in the last few years had a giant white oak log like this and we took it and had it cut into lumber with a steam powered saw mill. As a wood worker, it's amazing to see what comes out of these logs. Beautiful grain patterns and the smell of fresh cut oak. I bet it smells great!
Years ago while walking out of a home center I saw an older man exiting the store alongside me, and with a smile over his face. He made eye contact with me, carrying along what supplies he needed to finish whatever he was working on, smiled, and exclaimed, “making America beautiful!” I think about that moment all the time. But that memory feels extra special to me today. Keep making America beautiful, Matt. And congratulations on your participation in your first U.S. election.
Awesome videos , for many years my father and his 3 brothers ran a sawmill in Iowa .Before and after WW 2 ,in IOWA , so this brings back sweet memories .I would watch them work for hours .
I appreciate your calmness when the blade hits metal, which is obviously going to cost time and money. It's good to see a craftsman take the negatives without getting upset!
I love watching how you read the story of the wood patterns. It’s fascinating and I’m learning! I adore wood and really appreciate the fascinating patterns that develop for myriad of reasons. I have to say that yellow pine, and birdseye maple are two of my favorites. I also love curly and tigerseye patterns in wood. I love wood with orange, yellow and reddish hues.
Thanks Matt for the tour through cutting that oak log. Amazing the amount of staining that barb and staple did to the tree so long ago. Back in the 20's my maternal Grandpa had a portable saw mill powered by a steam engine. Sure wish I could seen his operation but I was born in '39 so didn't get to see any of his work and he passed inn '47. Before he passed though he made and gave me my most prized tool. A kids saw was made out of a short section of his band saw. At about 4 inches wide with a handle he made as well and about 16 inches long he included the scarf braze joint in my saw not far from the handle. There are two lines that are about ⅜ inches apart; that got me to thinking about the joint. A really fine modeling file and a sharpening stone revealed the very thin brass joint. Knowing how he did things I think it was put there on purpose for me. Finding it I ran outside, looked up and hollered "I found it Grandpa, I found it." What wonderful things our folks did for us. Thanks for your "tour". Jim Martin
That was so educational into log Slabs cutting , the Hiw's and Why's ! Way back younger days ,Watched Live, blade sharpening and cutting of imported Mahagony Red Wood rough blocks but did not learn anything from them except it was hard wood used for furniture ! Thank You for the Enlightening !
Man oh man I have totally enjoyed watching you get through that huge tree getting those slabs. And I appreciate the way you explain the structure and how things make the tree what it is even the possible lightning strike/barbed wire/fence staple situation! Way to go, I learned a lot. God bless and stay safe look forward to your future videos! Larry Wagoner from QC Arizona, wish we had trees that size in my yard ,but the biggest thing I have is a 200 year old saguaro cactus (ha ha)! Keep up the good work in Minnesota, You have a friend in Arizona...!
I just mindlessly watch you work... it's incredible the ease you move those slabs with... I know you use the skid but even you pushing and pulling those slabs around by hand is definitely considerable weight... I've tried to move them myself a long time ago and let me tell you, it's impossible until I see you do it! Thank you for another super interesting video...
Matthew, Great stuff. Very inspirational. I just raised our Timber frame on our property near Flagstaff, Az. Been following along for a couple of years. I love it to see people like yourself doing it , not just talking about it. Time for talk is over. Time for people of courage to begin rebuilding our society...from the foundation up. Thanks for leading the way.
You're scarin' me w that talk. Get your facts together. Ignorance isn't bliss. It just tried to tumble this USA. Stick to wood on this channel, please!
I’ve spent some time working around sawmills so I just happen to notice, I have been the guy in the skiddie setting the logs and stacking the product. What stands out to me is the simplicity of the the skid tool that you use. I think it allows you a much better view of what you are doing and how you don’t have to crawl in and out of the machine, you just step on and off. Very simple
Matthew, your laugh and energy is so infectious. I completely enjoy watching your excitement and enthusiasm in doing what you do. It's an inspiration to see that your work ethic is serving you well. Keep it up. I wish you and your lovely family all the best in the new home as well!
WOW this reminds me so much of 15 years I spent in Lancaster Pa - working with Amish making my furniture ! A few of them had portable sawmills like yours -- one little kid maybe 12-13 could operate that kind of machine.. most of our HUGE trees/logs/stumps came out of Yards and nostalgic fields. They were White Oaks !
Quite an impressive operation you have there from the trailer which is genius to the massive mill you have and the tractor with forklift. One man mill!
Hard work!! Love the video and like to see the tables made from this tree and your hard work. I might add that your sunny personality is pretty appealing!! Thanks dude!!
Wow, this is ultimate woodworking!I can only dream of having a spacious enough space out in the country like that to have that much fun! I could peacefully retire having joy making stuff out of wood like that. Like one man’s trash being another man’s treasure, we see wood the same way! An old piece of tree is somebody’s new spice rack, pencil holder, or something else wonderfully natural. Thanks for sharing. Subscribed! (Do get worried about you and that blade cutting the blue stain. I think I would have removed the top cuts to see what’s there. Oh, love your cutting trailer!
That is some beautiful clear lumber. I know what you mean about the density of white oak, when I was about 12 I helped my father build a ramp to the haymow of out barn that stuff was heavy.
i am imagining so many telecaster and gibson les paul guitars along with a few stratocaster bodys out of that wood = but i think 1/4 sawn is the best so they do not warp .
Newbie here, tripped into the video, and enjoyed it very much. The subject is of interest although I know little of the craft. Great to observe a true craftsman at his trade. Kudos to the cameraman for superb camera angles and camera motion.
Nice video and you seem to be such a cool guy to be around. I love wood including my 5 ft diameter live oaks i have on my property. Not good for table slabs but working on plans for a awesome tree house to be built in the 2 connecting trees. Of course I would use non invasive attachments. Love your work.
Always enjoy your videos Matt. I like your down to earth attitude. I have been milling lumber since 1973 and really enjoy seeing the mill that you built. With the band as long as it is, I wonder how you keep the cuts from wandering.
Half way through, we were thinking how steady the camera was. Started wondering just who was filming. Very well done, enjoyable to watch. (We bounce our camera like tennis balls at a dog park)
I collected the last log when my neighbor had her white oak removed. It had over 100 rings and was about 36 inches. 10 feet long. The tree removal company was taking all of the wood to a yard to dump it. I asked them to put it on my flatbed truck instead of their dump trailer which they happily did. I paid someone to saw it for me and it also had blue stains like this one. The pieces of steel were also very very small. I don't make videos very often but I did make a timelapse of the tree removal. It's on my profile.
It is kind of cool that you invest so much effort into cutting the logs that nobody wants to touch. You truly seem to enjoy producing slabs with wild crotch figures and defects. Those slabs are a nightmare to work with for any woodworking project, but they look cool. It is great that they get love from you for their goofyness.
You should weld some wheels onto your rotisserie stands similar to how they are on driveway basketball hoops. That way they'd still hold securely in place, but could easily be moved when tipped at an angle
19:27 Blade is dull and getting hot enough to throw out steam with sawdust. 20:13 Take off all the slabs to relieve weight on the blade, then it will be easy to drive a wedge in.
Great show! Some beautiful slabs too. Metal detector might be of service to you to locate and avoid messing up a blade. Hitting metal, even if it doesn't break any teeth, still bends them and then the blade tracks off sometimes ruining a very valuable slab of wood. I'm sure you know that. Anyway I enjoyed your video.
All people that do this I assume they accomplish some progress even if is physically mental, that not really must to be a money maker, but self satisfactory, prove yourself that you can do it is an instant gratification, I do it because I feel good when doing it, is an expensive hobby and not apt for everyone, must have the love to do things instead of watching and doing nothing, that is what he probably accomplished with this work being done, let’s be a lovers, not haters!
Matthew you are one interesting young man not afraid to take on anything no matter how Big, awesome video work let alone the wood knowledge involved in taking on these projects i remember when you built this Saw and the young lady from Texas who i do follow as well love your work keep on keeping on Sir
Enjoyed it. Liked both the filming and Matt running commentary. Thanks! Learned something every day! I have about 40 white pine 60-80ft high and in GREAT form for some woodsmen to help me produce some flooring. T&G, and ship lap siding.
Thanks Zack! A characteristic of sawblades is set: how much the teeth protrude past the blade's body. This allow the teeth to clear a wider path than the thickness of the body supporting them. The blade is essentially floating in the kerf as it travels through the log.
That is a big stick... in my country, the Netherlands, a tree that size would most certainly be protected. Not many trees survived the war (ww2). And nowadays they dont let trees grow big at all unfortunately...
@@johndethlefs6013 We do have big trees, but mostly not in the western part of the Netherlands anymore. That's where our big cities are. In the eastern and southern part we have some nice old landscapes (private and also National Parks) smaller towns and villages where you can find nice big trees. Chestnut trees have a bigger chance to grow big over here, because they were planted in cities and mark the long lanes we have.
america is huge and has only been widely populated for a couple hundred years... western europe has been ragged hard for several centuries and all the best stuff has gone, there's a fair amount of old growth still about, stuff that wasn't quite good enough to cut down and build with. willem is right they're protected now. john trees take ages to get that big.
Americans love their trees and most likely this was not an old growth log as evidenced by the old limbs. Trees in neighborhoods can get really big very fast because they have little competition for sunlight from other trees and receive adequate water and fertilizer every single year unlike trees in a forest. There are numerous neighborhoods in my area built in the 1970s where the oaks are now easily 5+ feet in diameter←simply enormous and they are only 50 years old. Honestly, they are too big in many cases having grown too big too fast and a lot of them are being removed just like this one. But with all that said, a lot of America has reverted back to forest and in a hundred years or so, I am sure there will be many true old growth trees once again with tight grains that have withstood the sands of time.
Oh that's some really pretty wood to work with. I love that... Good job! One more thing...Any iron that was in the middle of that tree...was long gone. That tree ate it and loved it!
I remember my grandfather cutting a big old oak tree this was like 25 years ago. when i was like 11. He was making them into Slabs. There was like hundreds of american Revolutionary War bullets in the slabs. And 1 Bayonet that got cut in half from making the slab
Never thought I’d watch that long a video but your talent and knowledge and the history of the log was well worth the watch. You certainly have the equipment for the job and you really enjoy what you do. Not being nosey but what is a log that big worth dollar wise. You used quite a few blades. Is that normal?
It’s funny seeing a whole video made from the slabbing of 1 log. I worked in sawmills that would mow through a log like this in 2 minutes and be on to the next over and over all day
That was fascination, I always wondered how these giant logs were milled. I think everyone seeing this video would like to know the value of one of those slabs (approximately, understanding some slabs are bigger or smaller than others). Thanks
I have a 250 year old Walnut Tree on my property. I had a 10 Iron fence installed around the tree to keep it from getting cut down. The Missouri State Conservative said this tree is a historic tree because it is the only one in the area. I signed over the tree to The Missouri State Conservative for Conservatorship ...
I'm watching this, as I have many times before, just thinking "What a machine. What a MACHINE!" I can't imagine how much fun it must be to run given the entertainment we're getting from watching it.
Matthew, your laugh and energy is so infectious. I completely enjoy watching your excitement and enthusiasm in doing what you do. It's an inspiration to see that your work ethic is serving you well. Keep it up. I wish you and your lovely family all the best in the new home as well!
Curious where this tree grew up ? On a farm somewhere ? With the barb mainly twds the center of log, that wire must have grew into that tree back in the 1800's ?
Very cool video. This is why Americans are blessed, we invent to create or accomplish a project. I found the rotater interesting, simple and effective. Thank you for letting us into your world. Continue the good work.
My buddy has a mobile saw mill business and what this guy is doing is the complete opposite to what my buddy's been doing for 25 years, plus it's just common sense to remove the pieces to reduce friction from the weight
@@MattVenezuela It mostly depends on the width of the blade used. But by using geometry & physics to find the angler vertex pinch point/s (binding) of the...a.) blade width, b.) kerf of teeth, c.) teeth length, d.) substrate flex potential/rigidity, e.) mass, etc; will indicate if there's a benefit/s, or not, to removing a slab after each one has been cut...
Helen Burke The cut slabs above cannot pinch the blade because the blade is not wide enough. The uncut wood immediately in front of the blade would have to crush to grab the blade. The slabs above will meet the cut ones eventually of course but not soon enough to grab. Imagine the new cut to be like a triangle on its side with the blade running free within whilst cutting the triangle base. Let another viewer explain how the blade exits.
Can’t help but wonder if it might be easier on the blade if it was only cutting through a single layer without all the weight of the other cut slabs on top
At the point where the blade teeth meet the face of the cut the downward weight of the log on the blade is zero pounds. Using a 1” blade or less you still have basically zero downward pressure on the blade’s rear edge. The wood can’t bend that quick. As for those blade marks on the slabs, that is due to the slow forward speed of the carriage. The faster the carriage travels, the less saw marks there will be. On a slabbing mill like this one, there’s nothing you can do about it. It’s taken care of during the construction phase of using these slabs. P.S. “Kerf” is the thickness of the cut. On a bandsaw mill, it is typically a 1/8” kerf.
Where the blade is cutting it is not pinched by the weight of the slabs above it. The uncut portion supports the a gap the size of the blade kerf for a few inches before the weight pinches down. That is why it is hard to back the blade out and he has to wedge the wood to back the blade out if you hit something.
The kerf of the blade creats just enough space behind, as it progresses though the timber, for there not to be too much friction. After a couple of inches the slab will sag down onto the rest of the log, but behind the blade - so the blade is effectively making its own tiny triangular void through which it passes.
Nice log! Some feedback for the cameraman: it would be nice to include some close-ups of the interesting parts of the slabs, like the crotch figure and the ray flecking. The wide shots of the whole slab are a great overview, but they're too zoomed out to see much of the grain, especially with reflections off the water getting in the way.
Yep. And fewer ‘dramatic sweeping round’ shots. They work occasionally but the almost constant movement wasn’t helpful to see the work. keeping plenty of the fixed position shots would be great. But that said it certainly adds another dynamic 👍
When the blade bound up at approximately 21 minutes could it be the heave weight of the cut slabs on the blade. I would think there is a lot more pressure and friction on the blade with the cut slabs on top of the blade verses cutting without the slabs bearing down on the blade. Now I have 4 cents into this huge log.
cattey The log he was cutting did not move on the sawmill. There was 4 or 5 very wide and thick slabs that was dead weight on the slab being cut. Once the slab is completely cut through and free from the log, all of its weight rest on the one below it.
My granddaughter had two Pitbulls and had them in my yard. I also had a tree that they were around and they chewed the bark off of it and what it was he itself it looked like that tree where you think it might have dead lightning so we really don't know, I love your shows. They are very educational. God bless you and your family.
I think... you are a genius Matthew! What incredible videos you make and the machinery you use... stunning! Thank you for such entertaining (and a little scary) videos showing how you do these things! Wow!
I think Matt mentioned a weekly live strean he had a top rated video production guy stop by the shop and shoot some sawmill videos. This is clearly one of them.
@@mcremona To be honest, they don't. I would rather watch this than any of the crap Hollywood has put out over the last several years. The only TV show I watch anymore is Forged in Fire. I'm not even sure why I'm paying for cable still.
Lol. Didn’t even need to scroll to find this comment. Thank you. I guess it’s not enough of an issue. Maybe it’s easier to do it all at once, then whatever effort you’re saving by having less weight in the blades. Maybe it also helps to have some weight on the bottom slabs. I literally know nothing about any of this, so take this with a grain of oak
Yes, you'd think that an issue with the very last inch of the cut before the blade is completely through. The moment the blade is completely through there's nothing in front of it holding the load above it up any more, but the blade itself is still underneath all that mass.
As an old guy I am very proud of you for the great work you do. This show was a treat. Thank you.
After watching the video advert i was still skeptical. But when i finally downloaded the plans ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxZF0EMnrujZvqHhGkxiz559uIABJWR9TG i was very impressed. The whole plan was just as you said in the video. Thank you very much. I now have a large and valuable collection for my woodworks. This is great!
I never thought watching a log getting cut could be so much fun. Better than cutting a diamond!
A World Wide Wrestling Event. A slim guy against a four ton log. Enjoyed your videos for several years now. Very pleased to see you have all of your fingers and limbs. Keep them.
You are truly an inspiration to those of us who do not fear a days work. WELL DONE, Matthew!
Your conversational way of explaining as you go about your business makes it easy to follow and enjoyable to listen to. Thanks man!
That slab-flipping setup is pure engineering genius. Simple and highly effective; the best kind of solution.
Why does the slab have to be rolled?
Doesn't absolutely have to be, its an artistic decision to get different grain views.
Can stack it all in order without moving it twice this way, as well.
It needs the clamps welded to it
Love the ingenuity of the slab flipper. You should market them and call 'em "Twirl a Slab 5000"- so cool and so easy for you customers (wives) to easily compare which side is best. Love it, your channel, and passion!
My father in law in the last few years had a giant white oak log like this and we took it and had it cut into lumber with a steam powered saw mill. As a wood worker, it's amazing to see what comes out of these logs. Beautiful grain patterns and the smell of fresh cut oak. I bet it smells great!
I AM TRUELY INFORM WITH THE INFORMATION YOU GIVE USE WITH EACH VEDIO. THANK YOU AND I CAN NOT STOPPING WHICHING YOU SHOW EACH TIME I VIEW A NEW SHO.
...as someone who spends all day inside at a desk, thank you for sharing your work with the world. I wish I lived more like this.
Years ago while walking out of a home center I saw an older man exiting the store alongside me, and with a smile over his face. He made eye contact with me, carrying along what supplies he needed to finish whatever he was working on, smiled, and exclaimed, “making America beautiful!”
I think about that moment all the time. But that memory feels extra special to me today.
Keep making America beautiful, Matt. And congratulations on your participation in your first U.S. election.
Thank you!
The natural beauty inside trees like this leave me in awe. The sawmill you built works excellent.👊😎 Thanks for sharing Matthew 👍
That drive-by water toss was epic. Beautiful slabs you have there!
Awesome videos , for many years my father and his 3 brothers ran a sawmill in Iowa .Before and after WW 2 ,in IOWA , so this brings back sweet memories .I would watch them work for hours .
I appreciate your calmness when the blade hits metal, which is obviously going to cost time and money. It's good to see a craftsman take the negatives without getting upset!
Love your positive attitude, shows how much you love what you are doing and thank you for the interesting explanation of the log graining. Awesome!
I love watching how you read the story of the wood patterns. It’s fascinating and I’m learning! I adore wood and really appreciate the fascinating patterns that develop for myriad of reasons. I have to say that yellow pine, and birdseye maple are two of my favorites. I also love curly and tigerseye patterns in wood. I love wood with orange, yellow and reddish hues.
Thanks Matt for the tour through cutting that oak log. Amazing the amount of staining that barb and staple did to the tree so long ago. Back in the 20's my maternal Grandpa had a portable saw mill powered by a steam engine. Sure wish I could seen his operation but I was born in '39 so didn't get to see any of his work and he passed inn '47. Before he passed though he made and gave me my most prized tool. A kids saw was made out of a short section of his band saw. At about 4 inches wide with a handle he made as well and about 16 inches long he included the scarf braze joint in my saw not far from the handle. There are two lines that are about ⅜ inches apart; that got me to thinking about the joint. A really fine modeling file and a sharpening stone revealed the very thin brass joint. Knowing how he did things I think it was put there on purpose for me. Finding it I ran outside, looked up and hollered "I found it Grandpa, I found it." What wonderful things our folks did for us. Thanks for your "tour". Jim Martin
That was so educational into log Slabs cutting , the Hiw's and Why's ! Way back younger days ,Watched Live, blade sharpening and cutting of imported Mahagony Red Wood rough blocks but did not learn anything from them except it was hard wood used for furniture ! Thank You for the Enlightening !
Man oh man I have totally enjoyed watching you get through that huge tree getting those slabs. And I appreciate the way you explain the structure and how things make the tree what it is even the possible lightning strike/barbed wire/fence staple situation! Way to go, I learned a lot.
God bless and stay safe look forward to your future videos!
Larry Wagoner from QC Arizona, wish we had trees that size in my yard ,but the biggest thing I have is a 200 year old saguaro cactus (ha ha)!
Keep up the good work in Minnesota, You have a friend in Arizona...!
Thank you!
I just mindlessly watch you work... it's incredible the ease you move those slabs with... I know you use the skid but even you pushing and pulling those slabs around by hand is definitely considerable weight... I've tried to move them myself a long time ago and let me tell you, it's impossible until I see you do it! Thank you for another super interesting video...
Matthew, Great stuff. Very inspirational. I just raised our Timber frame on our property near Flagstaff, Az. Been following along for a couple of years. I love it to see people like yourself doing it , not just talking about it. Time for talk is over. Time for people of courage to begin rebuilding our society...from the foundation up. Thanks for leading the way.
You're scarin' me w that talk. Get your facts together. Ignorance isn't bliss. It just tried to tumble this USA. Stick to wood on this channel, please!
My man....you are an amazing person. To do what you do alone is unreal. My hat is off to you.
thanks!
I like how Oak smells like popcorn when you cut it -- Must be the tannin in the wood. Beautiful Stuff -- Wears like iron!
49 minutes of high quality A+ distraction. Nice.
The good stuff
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49 minute?????!!! they feel like 10
The new camera job doesn't looks like A+ compared to the previous videos. It looks very soulless now.
@@O-.-O arguing on the internet! Even more distraction. This is bonus distraction DLC!
I would love to see some examples of what is made form these incredible slabs of wood please.
Blacktail Studio youtube channel does a lot of slab/live edge work if you wanna see what you can turn pieces like these into
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I’ve spent some time working around sawmills so I just happen to notice, I have been the guy in the skiddie setting the logs and stacking the product. What stands out to me is the simplicity of the the skid tool that you use. I think it allows you a much better view of what you are doing and how you don’t have to crawl in and out of the machine, you just step on and off. Very simple
Most people don’t get that. Thanks!
Matt, you are one brilliant and energetic young man! Thanks for sharing your efforts with us.
Love white oak. Underutilized wood. Great grain structure. I saved 34 pallets made of white oak. All of em came out of St Louis Missouri area.
Matthew, your laugh and energy is so infectious. I completely enjoy watching your excitement and enthusiasm in doing what you do. It's an inspiration to see that your work ethic is serving you well. Keep it up. I wish you and your lovely family all the best in the new home as well!
Thank you Kevin!
WOW this reminds me so much of 15 years I spent in Lancaster Pa - working with Amish making my furniture ! A few of them had portable sawmills like yours -- one little kid maybe 12-13 could operate that kind of machine.. most of our HUGE trees/logs/stumps came out of Yards and nostalgic fields. They were White Oaks !
yes i say bring on the kids amish do it whole family joins in
Matthew I just absolutely love to see you slab a log. The beautiful wood grain and nature of the tree.Thanks for sharing Jesus loves you and so do I.
Quite an impressive operation you have there from the trailer which is genius to the massive mill you have and the tractor with forklift. One man mill!
Hard work!! Love the video and like to see the tables made from this tree and your hard work. I might add that your sunny personality is pretty appealing!! Thanks dude!!
Wow, this is ultimate woodworking!I can only dream of having a spacious enough space out in the country like that to have that much fun! I could peacefully retire having joy making stuff out of wood like that. Like one man’s trash being another man’s treasure, we see wood the same way! An old piece of tree is somebody’s new spice rack, pencil holder, or something else wonderfully natural. Thanks for sharing. Subscribed! (Do get worried about you and that blade cutting the blue stain. I think I would have removed the top cuts to see what’s there. Oh, love your cutting trailer!
That is some beautiful clear lumber. I know what you mean about the density of white oak, when I was about 12 I helped my father build a ramp to the haymow of out barn that stuff was heavy.
i am imagining so many telecaster and gibson les paul guitars along with a few stratocaster bodys out of that wood = but i think 1/4 sawn is the best so they do not warp .
Newbie here, tripped into the video, and enjoyed it very much. The subject is of interest although I know little of the craft. Great to observe a true craftsman at his trade. Kudos to the cameraman for superb camera angles and camera motion.
Thanks!
Nice video and you seem to be such a cool guy to be around. I love wood including my 5 ft diameter live oaks i have on my property. Not good for table slabs but working on plans for a awesome tree house to be built in the 2 connecting trees. Of course I would use non invasive attachments. Love your work.
Always enjoy your videos Matt. I like your down to earth attitude. I have been milling lumber since 1973 and really enjoy seeing the mill that you built. With the band as long as it is, I wonder how you keep the cuts from wandering.
Half way through, we were thinking how steady the camera was. Started wondering just who was filming. Very well done, enjoyable to watch. (We bounce our camera like tennis balls at a dog park)
When filming never look through the camera as it will shake, just look over it and hold it to you body.
Dude that is one mighty oak!!! Hot damn buddy that's one of if not the biggest logs I've ever seen on a mobile mill!!!
My husband really enjoy watching your videos you do really nice work. My husband was a carpenter but now he's retired.
I collected the last log when my neighbor had her white oak removed. It had over 100 rings and was about 36 inches. 10 feet long. The tree removal company was taking all of the wood to a yard to dump it. I asked them to put it on my flatbed truck instead of their dump trailer which they happily did. I paid someone to saw it for me and it also had blue stains like this one. The pieces of steel were also very very small. I don't make videos very often but I did make a timelapse of the tree removal. It's on my profile.
My hubby watching this in my family room and I'm in my bedroom watching this amazing "huge" 8000lbs. of white Oak. Amazing.
That's some beautiful lumber there, Matt.
I admire the strong will, perseverance and the highly dependancy of the machine to finish the job. A very massive job of one person. Amazed by it.
It is kind of cool that you invest so much effort into cutting the logs that nobody wants to touch. You truly seem to enjoy producing slabs with wild crotch figures and defects.
Those slabs are a nightmare to work with for any woodworking project, but they look cool. It is great that they get love from you for their goofyness.
Jon did a great job with his filming. I literally thought to myself "Man he really stepped up his filming game.
You should weld some wheels onto your rotisserie stands similar to how they are on driveway basketball hoops. That way they'd still hold securely in place, but could easily be moved when tipped at an angle
19:27 Blade is dull and getting hot enough to throw out steam with sawdust.
20:13 Take off all the slabs to relieve weight on the blade, then it will be easy to drive a wedge in.
Always good to see a pro. The precise stacking says it all.
Lovely superb Nice sawing of such a huge white oak. The fiber of the white oak is very good.
Not real big on long videos, but Matthew is just a real genuine, hard working person that is enjoyable to watch.
Great show! Some beautiful slabs too. Metal detector might be of service to you to locate and avoid messing up a blade. Hitting metal, even if it doesn't break any teeth, still bends them and then the blade tracks off sometimes ruining a very valuable slab of wood. I'm sure you know that. Anyway I enjoyed your video.
2 hours working from home. What have you accomplished? Idk I watched a log get cut for 49 minutes though
Beautiful slabs Matt! Perfect distraction for a Wednesday morning work day! Lol
I always skip through videos this long. you get the entertainment and learning
I am glad that you are not wasting your time .Only us men can enjoy this and wish we did this for a living.
Beautiful slabs Matt! Perfect distraction for a Wednesday morning work day! Lol
All people that do this I assume they accomplish some progress even if is physically mental, that not really must to be a money maker, but self satisfactory, prove yourself that you can do it is an instant gratification, I do it because I feel good when doing it, is an expensive hobby and not apt for everyone, must have the love to do things instead of watching and doing nothing, that is what he probably accomplished with this work being done, let’s be a lovers, not haters!
Matthew you are one interesting young man not afraid to take on anything no matter how Big, awesome video work let alone the wood knowledge involved in taking on these projects i remember when you built this Saw and the young lady from Texas who i do follow as well love your work keep on keeping on Sir
Enjoyed it. Liked both the filming and Matt running commentary. Thanks! Learned something every day!
I have about 40 white pine 60-80ft high and in GREAT form for some woodsmen to help me produce some flooring. T&G, and ship lap siding.
It's people like this that give me hope in American future which is looking so dim right now.
That trailer is sweet. I'm surprised the blade doesn't pinch on itself with the massive weight of the tree.
Thanks Zack! A characteristic of sawblades is set: how much the teeth protrude past the blade's body. This allow the teeth to clear a wider path than the thickness of the body supporting them. The blade is essentially floating in the kerf as it travels through the log.
@@mcremona Dang Today I Learned. Thank you!
Happy to help. I know I’ve learned plenty from your videos 🙂
@@mcremona aha -I wondered the same thing.
What part of the country you from.
Have you ever cut hedge also Osage orange? Love your mill.
How much was it.
Nice work
I bet the wood smells as good as it looks. fresh cut timber WOW
White oak stinks
That is a big stick... in my country, the Netherlands, a tree that size would most certainly be protected. Not many trees survived the war (ww2). And nowadays they dont let trees grow big at all unfortunately...
why don't you let some grow that big? Even on private land?
It was a shame how old growth trees got youse for the war efforts. And after what was left to build homes ect. Hi from New Zealand.
@@johndethlefs6013 We do have big trees, but mostly not in the western part of the Netherlands anymore. That's where our big cities are. In the eastern and southern part we have some nice old landscapes (private and also National Parks) smaller towns and villages where you can find nice big trees. Chestnut trees have a bigger chance to grow big over here, because they were planted in cities and mark the long lanes we have.
america is huge and has only been widely populated for a couple hundred years... western europe has been ragged hard for several centuries and all the best stuff has gone, there's a fair amount of old growth still about, stuff that wasn't quite good enough to cut down and build with. willem is right they're protected now.
john trees take ages to get that big.
Americans love their trees and most likely this was not an old growth log as evidenced by the old limbs. Trees in neighborhoods can get really big very fast because they have little competition for sunlight from other trees and receive adequate water and fertilizer every single year unlike trees in a forest. There are numerous neighborhoods in my area built in the 1970s where the oaks are now easily 5+ feet in diameter←simply enormous and they are only 50 years old. Honestly, they are too big in many cases having grown too big too fast and a lot of them are being removed just like this one. But with all that said, a lot of America has reverted back to forest and in a hundred years or so, I am sure there will be many true old growth trees once again with tight grains that have withstood the sands of time.
That log flipper is awesome...first time I have ever seen that. Great stuff.
Oh that's some really pretty wood to work with. I love that... Good job! One more thing...Any iron that was in the middle of that tree...was long gone. That tree ate it and loved it!
I remember my grandfather cutting a big old oak tree this was like 25 years ago. when i was like 11. He was making them into Slabs. There was like hundreds of american Revolutionary War bullets in the slabs. And 1 Bayonet that got cut in half from making the slab
Where?
Never thought I’d watch that long a video but your talent and knowledge and the history of the log was well worth the watch. You certainly have the equipment for the job and you really enjoy what you do. Not being nosey but what is a log that big worth dollar wise. You used quite a few blades. Is that normal?
Beautiful slabs Matt! Perfect distraction for a Wednesday morning work day! Lol
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It’s funny seeing a whole video made from the slabbing of 1 log. I worked in sawmills that would mow through a log like this in 2 minutes and be on to the next over and over all day
23:40 that "thereeee we go" i know you had to try that move multiple times before getting it right its always like that 😂
That was fascination, I always wondered how these giant logs were milled. I think everyone seeing this video would like to know the value of one of those slabs (approximately, understanding some slabs are bigger or smaller than others). Thanks
You have to be into wood to watch 45 minutes of sawing wood. I watched every minute.
Wow love the filming on this! I'm surprised This Old House hasn't wanted to film with you. They should!
Got to love the joke and the little evil laugh at 15.42 😂😂
I have a 250 year old Walnut Tree on my property. I had a 10 Iron fence installed around the tree to keep it from getting cut down. The Missouri State Conservative said this tree is a historic tree because it is the only one in the area. I signed over the tree to The Missouri State Conservative for Conservatorship ...
I'm watching this, as I have many times before, just thinking "What a machine. What a MACHINE!" I can't imagine how much fun it must be to run given the entertainment we're getting from watching it.
Light years more entertaining than NetFlix.
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Matthew, your laugh and energy is so infectious. I completely enjoy watching your excitement and enthusiasm in doing what you do. It's an inspiration to see that your work ethic is serving you well. Keep it up. I wish you and your lovely family all the best in the new home as well!
My poos are more entertaining than Netflix and they’re not even that exciting really.
#Loveswatchingmenplaywiththeirwood
Mother nature is, and will always be, the best artist! She produces original works at will, and man just can't compete!
Curious where this tree grew up ? On a farm somewhere ? With the barb mainly twds the center of log, that wire must have grew into that tree back in the 1800's ?
Matt, I hope the day arrives when I can purchase a slab for my home.
Sometimes I wish my saw cut more than 30”.... then I watch Matt dangling from a canthook and I think maybe 30” ain’t so bad. 😆
It's wonderful to see trees that would have ended up rotting in a landfill put into use.
Get yourself a metal detector, they work great for locating metal in logs.
Very nice wood characteristics analysis with visual explanation👌
Very cool video. This is why Americans are blessed, we invent to create or accomplish a project. I found the rotater interesting, simple and effective. Thank you for letting us into your world. Continue the good work.
Would be interesting to know the end result of many of these beautiful slabs. :)
Seems If you would get those heavy slabs off the blade would go through a lot easier.
Thats exactly it too much weight on the blade would heat up and dull fast 1 slab at a time for me maybe 2 depends on wood type
Addition of a "camera person?" Nice look! Incredible Slabs!!
Trying it out 😊
Always enjoy watching how appreciative you are of your finished cuts. Happy holidays from Edina
Thankyou Really enjoyed the video.I also appreciate the time you took to explain what is going on with each board.Have a great day.
Thanks Tom!
The weight of the slabs already cut pressing down makes the saw hard to go through??
My buddy has a mobile saw mill business and what this guy is doing is the complete opposite to what my buddy's been doing for 25 years, plus it's just common sense to remove the pieces to reduce friction from the weight
That would be my first thought but it looks and sounds like the saw blade isn't struggling at all.
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It mostly depends on the width of the blade used. But by using geometry & physics to find the angler vertex pinch point/s (binding) of the...a.) blade width, b.) kerf of teeth, c.) teeth length, d.) substrate flex potential/rigidity, e.) mass, etc; will indicate if there's a benefit/s, or not, to removing a slab after each one has been cut...
If it cuts, why take the time to stop?
Helen Burke The cut slabs above cannot pinch the blade because the blade is not wide enough. The uncut wood immediately in front of the blade would have to crush to grab the blade. The slabs above will meet the cut ones eventually of course but not soon enough to grab. Imagine the new cut to be like a triangle on its side with the blade running free within whilst cutting the triangle base. Let another viewer explain how the blade exits.
Can’t help but wonder if it might be easier on the blade if it was only cutting through a single layer without all the weight of the other cut slabs on top
And the individual boards wouldn’t have those rough curff lined on the surface.
At the point where the blade teeth meet the face of the cut the downward weight of the log on the blade is zero pounds. Using a 1” blade or less you still have basically zero downward pressure on the blade’s rear edge. The wood can’t bend that quick.
As for those blade marks on the slabs, that is due to the slow forward speed of the carriage. The faster the carriage travels, the less saw marks there will be. On a slabbing mill like this one, there’s nothing you can do about it. It’s taken care of during the construction phase of using these slabs.
P.S. “Kerf” is the thickness of the cut. On a bandsaw mill, it is typically a 1/8” kerf.
Isnt the weight of that trunk not wearing on your blade the more tree is pushing on it?
That's what I was thinking too.
Where the blade is cutting it is not pinched by the weight of the slabs above it. The uncut portion supports the a gap the size of the blade kerf for a few inches before the weight pinches down. That is why it is hard to back the blade out and he has to wedge the wood to back the blade out if you hit something.
Amazing work! Beautifully done. Thanks for sharing.
I find it amazing the blade doesn’t burn up with all those slabs above that haven’t been removed.
It seems like it would be less strain on the saw if you remove them.
The kerf of the blade creats just enough space behind, as it progresses though the timber, for there not to be too much friction. After a couple of inches the slab will sag down onto the rest of the log, but behind the blade - so the blade is effectively making its own tiny triangular void through which it passes.
I believe he is spraying the blade as it cuts with something. Water, silicone?
@@timmayer8723 diesel, in my experience
When the blade is exiting the log that when the load causes the pinch on the band blade
Nice log! Some feedback for the cameraman: it would be nice to include some close-ups of the interesting parts of the slabs, like the crotch figure and the ray flecking. The wide shots of the whole slab are a great overview, but they're too zoomed out to see much of the grain, especially with reflections off the water getting in the way.
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Came here to say this. Great camera work but missed the close up grain shots.
Yep. And fewer ‘dramatic sweeping round’ shots. They work occasionally but the almost constant movement wasn’t helpful to see the work. keeping plenty of the fixed position shots would be great. But that said it certainly adds another dynamic 👍
When the blade bound up at approximately 21 minutes could it be the heave weight of the cut slabs on the blade. I would think there is a lot more pressure and friction on the blade with the cut slabs on top of the blade verses cutting without the slabs bearing down on the blade. Now I have 4 cents into this huge log.
What’s that? Two tons of wood resting on the blade?
cattey The log he was cutting did not move on the sawmill. There was 4 or 5 very wide and thick slabs that was dead weight on the slab being cut. Once the slab is completely cut through and free from the log, all of its weight rest on the one below it.
My granddaughter had two Pitbulls and had them in my yard. I also had a tree that they were around and they chewed the bark off of it and what it was he itself it looked like that tree where you think it might have dead lightning so we really don't know, I love your shows. They are very educational. God bless you and your family.
I think... you are a genius Matthew! What incredible videos you make and the machinery you use... stunning! Thank you for such entertaining (and a little scary) videos showing how you do these things! Wow!
Look at all of those dynamic shots! What is this, Hollywood?
Hollywood doesn’t have anything on this!
Whoever was filming was getting some very good shots.
I think Matt mentioned a weekly live strean he had a top rated video production guy stop by the shop and shoot some sawmill videos. This is clearly one of them.
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@@mcremona To be honest, they don't. I would rather watch this than any of the crap Hollywood has put out over the last several years. The only TV show I watch anymore is Forged in Fire. I'm not even sure why I'm paying for cable still.
i was wondering why you dont remove all the slabs as it cuts seem like less weight on the blade is a good thing
Lol. Didn’t even need to scroll to find this comment. Thank you. I guess it’s not enough of an issue. Maybe it’s easier to do it all at once, then whatever effort you’re saving by having less weight in the blades. Maybe it also helps to have some weight on the bottom slabs. I literally know nothing about any of this, so take this with a grain of oak
He's on slab 4 and I'm surprised the wood hasn't caught fore from leaving the slabs on...
Yes, you'd think that an issue with the very last inch of the cut before the blade is completely through. The moment the blade is completely through there's nothing in front of it holding the load above it up any more, but the blade itself is still underneath all that mass.
It’s a powerful saw motor probably over 30hp
I am wondering why are you cutting so far down the face of the log.....The weight on the blade is tremendous
Good question.
I love how the tree looks cut and stacked, very beautiful